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Something sufficiently standard that, like Intel, you can buy a machine and know it will definitely run Windows and Linux, with working graphics drivers and expansion ports?

I have no money. I do have rich friends who are getting richer and richer every year.

I try to be gracious and happy for their good fortune.

However it makes me depressed and angry and envious.

One friend told me a few days ago his house went up in value $1,000,000 in one year, at which point he sold it.

I visited my cousin who is a fabulous person and has a gorgeous house freshly renovated and extended and a new pool put it.

All around me my peers are becoming very wealthy.

And I’m at the bottom with nothing.

I try to be happy for them and gracious and to listen and enthuse whilst they tell me of their good fortune or show me around their stunning houses. And afterwards I feel smashed with depression as I go back to my shit rental house that I’m ashamed of.

Good people, great friends, and seeing them brings me down.

Rich people aren’t aware that their tales of success make people like me feel bad. They shouldn’t have to be aware of that or hold themselves back. As a good friend I should feel happy for them, and I pretend to, but inside it makes me feel terrible.

If you’re commenting on this thread and offering advice, I encourage you add the context of whether you are one of those who have money or not.

How does it compare to modern Unix like operating systems?

YouTube is full of videos of people doing tricks with Balisong butterfly knives, presenting them as cool and fun.

In fact Balisong knives are deadly weapons and illegal in many places if the world.

Search YouTube for butterfly knife tricks or Balisong and you’ll see videos with millions of views.

So when I asked my 12 year old what he wants for his birthday he said “a Balisong”.

I “nearly”invented an entirely new class of software, but went out of business before getting there.

Many years ago I came up with a concept that dominates the world of software today, and I did it before anyone else. My idea lacked only one critical feature. Not just idea, but complete implementation, like nothing anyone had ever seen before.

My idea was so very close to being an idea that within a few years others would complete, leading to untold riches.

And for me nothing but failure.

Every day I think about how very very close I was to gigantic success.

How do I deal with this constant looking back?

Surely others feel the same way, nearly being highly successful, nearly finding the winning formula, being only an inch away from winning.

How do people handle this? How do you handle being inches from immense success, and instead being loser?

Say you’re running an online store, selling something digital or physical.

Is it practical to completely avoid the fees of payment processing companies like Stripe?